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Carnegie was born in 1888 to a poor farming family in the central United States. The boy didn’t see a train he was 12 years old. In his teens, he had to get up at 3 a.m. every day to milk the cows in his family.
When Carnegie first entered college, he felt because of his clothes and ordinary looks. His mother him: “Why not try to be better in other things instead of just dress and good ?”
Carnegie tried to be more active in college. He joined the debate (辩论) team. But one after another, he lost 12 meets. The young man was very in himself. He said later that he thought of killing himself after so many failures. soon Carnegie was seen practicing public speaking on the riverside. Because of his hard work, he at last. In 1906, Carnegie won a famous speech contest and became widely known. The young man made his own words come true, “Believe that you will succeed, you will.”
In order to his success, Carnegie opened schools and wrote books. His best-sellers include How to Win Friends, Influence People, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. More than 50 million of his books have been printed in 38 languages. They are still helping people on the road to success.
1.A. when B. as C. until D. while
2.A. hopeless B. tired C. happy D. useless
3.A. replied B. ordered C. protected D. encouraged
4.A. colleges B. looks C. families D. speeches
5.A. interested B. surprised C. disappointed D. excited
6.A. Although B. Then C. So D. But
7.A. succeeded B. failed C. graduated D. tried
8.A. or B. but C. and D. so
9.A. achieve B. share C. realize D. show
10.A. schools B. ones C. stories D. Copies
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Carnegie was born in 1888 to a poor farming family in the central United States．The boy didn't see a train he was 12 years old．In his teens，he had to get up at 3 am every day to milk the cows in his family．
When Carnegie first entered college，he felt because of his clothes and ordinary looks．His mother him: "Why not try to be better in other things instead of just dress and good looks?"．
Carnegie tried to be more active in college．He joined the debate（辩论） team．But one after another，he lost 12 meets．The young man was very in himself．He said later that he thought of killing himself after so many failures． soon Carnegie was seen practicing public speaking on the riverside．Because of his hard work，he at last． In 1906，Carnegie won a famous speech contest and became widely known．The young man made his own words come true，"Believe that you will succeed， you will．"
In order to his success，Carnegie opened schools and wrote books．His best-sellers include How to Win Friends，Influence People，How to Stop Worrying and Start Living．More than 50 million of his books have been printed in 38 languages．They are still helping people on the road to success．
1.A．when B．as C．until D．while
2.A．hopeless B．tired C．happy D．useless
3.A．replied B．ordered C．protected D．encouraged
4.A．colleges B．looks C．families D．speeches
5.A．interested B．surprised C．disappointed D．excited
6.A．Although B．Then C．So D．But
7.A．succeeded B．failed C．graduated D．tried
8.A．or B．but C．and D．so
9.A．achieve B．share C．realize D．show
10.A．schools B．ones C．stories D．copies
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Andrew Carnegie—the King of Steel（钢铁）,was born in 1835, in Scotland. In 1848, his family moved to America to look for a better chance for making money. Andrew Carnegie had a few years’ schooling. He worked from an early age.
In the early 1870s, Carnegie built his first steel company with others. Over the next few years, he built his own steel industry in the US, and became one of the wealthiest men in America.
Carnegie believed that people should win success through hard work, but he also felt strongly that the rich should use their money for the improvement and development of the society. He didn’t agree to always provide help for the poor. He thought it was important to provide educational chances to allow the poor to help themselves.
His more contributions（贡献） to society include the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh. It has a library, a museum of fine arts, and a museum of national history. He also built a school of technology that is now part of Carnegie-Mellon University. Other contributions to society are the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to develop understanding between nations, the Carnegie Institute of Washington to provide money for scientific research, and Carnegie Hall to provide a center for the arts.
Few Americans have been left not touched by Andrew Carnegie’s kindness. His contributions of more than five million dollars built 2,500 libraries in small communities throughout the country and formed the public library system that we all enjoy today.
1.Which of the following is the correct order about Andrew Carnegie?
①He built his own steel industry in the US.
②His family moved to America.
③He built his first steel company with others.
④He built part of Carnegie-Mellon University.
A. ①②③④ B. ②③①④
C. ②①④③ D. ④③②①
2.What does the underlined word “wealthiest” in Paragraph 2 mean?
A. most popular B. most famous C. richest D. greatest
3.What was Carnegie’s idea about helping others?
A. Helping others as much as possible.
B. Providing what the poor needed.
C. Giving money was the most convenient way to help the poor.
D. Providing educational chances for the poor.
4.What do the last two paragraphs tell us?
A. What Carnegie did for society. B. Carnegie’s success.
C. The ways to help the poor. D. How Carnegie carried out his idea.
5.Why did the writer write about the passage?
A. To tell us Carnegie’s life. B. To tell us Carnegie’s contributions.
C. To let us learn about Carnegie well. D. To tell how great Carnegie is.
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Answer the questions(根据短文内容回答下列问题)
Andrew Carnegie was born in 1835 in Scotland. He was from a poor family. When he was twelve, his family moved to the USA. They wanted a better life. There, Andrew started to work right away. He got a job in a factory. He was a good worker, but he didn’t like the job. Later, he changed his job. He worked at the Railroad Company where everybody liked him. He did many different jobs. His salary got higher every year.
In his free time, Andrew loved to read. But in those days, the United States didn’t have free public libraries. Luckily, he lived with a rich man with many books, who let young boys use his library for free, so Andrew could read as much as possible. He read throughout his life.
Andrew learned a lot at the railroad company. He realized that the railroad was very important for big countries. He had a idea to start a business with railroads. He saved all his money and opened a business at the age of thirty years.
First, his company made bridges for the railroads. Ten years later, it made steel for bridges, machines, and many other things. Soon he was the richest man in the world.
Andrew liked to make money. But he believed it was very important to help other people. In
1901, he sold his company for $480 million. He started to give away his money to make new libraries and colleges all over the United States. He built 2811 libraries. Andrew also gave a lot of money to people who worked for peace. In 1903, he gave $1.5 million to build a Peace Palace in the Netherlands.
Andrew Carnegie died in 1919.He was eighty-four years old. During his life, he gave away nearly all of his money. He gave away over $350 million for education and peace. There are colleges, libraries, hospitals, and parks named after Andrew Carnegie.He helped millions of
people all over the world to study and learn.
1.Andrew Carnegie used to work in a factory, didn’t he?
2.Why could Andrew Carnegie read as much as possible in those days?
3.How old was Andrew Carnegie when he opened a business?
4.What did Andrew Carnegie’s company do?
5.How did Andrew Carnegie help others after he sold his company?
6.What can you learn from Andrew Carnegie？
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1.The boy was born in a poor family. For this r_______, he began to work in the factory at an early age.
2.Everyone should keep q________in the library.
3.You look handsome today. Your shoes m_________your trousers.
4.Most panders can live longer in zoos than in the w___________.
5.You'd better f_________your pet dog. It looks hungry.
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George Stephenson was born in 1781 in a poor family. He had to start work when he was only eight．When George was fourteen, he became his father's helper．He spent a lot of time learning about engines（发动机）．And on holidays he often made one engine to pieces and studied each piece carefully．Soon he became a very good worker though he could not read or write．He began to learn English letters when he was seventeen years old．Every day after he did twelve hours of hard work, he walked a long way to have lessons from a young school teacher. On his eighteenth birthday，he wrote his own name for the first time in his life．George invented（发明） many things in his life．The train was the greatest one among them．Today when we take trains from one place to another，we'll think of this great man---George Stephenson．
1.In which year did George Stephenson start to help his father？________．
A.In 1781 B.In 1789 C.In 1795 D.In 1798
2.He learned about the engine ________．
A.through reading and writing
B.by making it to pieces and studying each piece carefully
C.at lessons from a young teacher
D.by asking a lot of questions
3.He spent a lot of time learning about engines and soon he became ________．
A.a great man B.a good maker C.a good worker D.a good student
4.George Stephenson invented the ________.
A.the train B.the telephone C.the car D.the computer
5.From the passage we know George Stephenson was one of the greatest ____ in the world．
A.workers B.writers C.learners D.inventors
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Thomas Edison was a great American inventor. He was born to a poor family in 1847. His mother taught him at home. He often observed things carefully and he made over 1,300 inventions during his life time. He was often said to be the greatest genius(天才) of his age. There are only a few men in all of history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric light. But Edison could never be happy only because someone said he was a genius. “There is no such thing as genius,” Edison said. He also said that what people called genius was mostly hard work. But Edison was a dreamer as well as a worker. From his earliest days as a child he wondered about the secrets of nature. Nature, he often said, is full of secrets. He tried to understand them; then, he tried to learn what could usefully be done with them.
Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people will do almost anything instead of the difficult work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking can give men enjoyment and pleasure.
Edison could not understand how anyone could be uninterested in life. As he loved to think, he also loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what ideas he had about life. “Work, ” he answered back, “discovering the secrets of nature and using them to make men happier.” He said he had enough inventions in his mind to give him another 100 years of work.
1.Edison was______________.
A．interested in changing people’s ideas
B．interested in discovering the secrets of nature
C．very much uninterested in nature
D．uninterested in making people happier by discovering the secrets of nature
2.Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?
A．Many other people have changed Edison’s life.
B．Edison has changed the lives of many other people.
C．Only a few men in history can change other people’s lives.
D．Edison invented the electric light.
3.The last sentence in the passage most probably implies(意指)___________.
A．people of his time were ready to give Edison another 100 year’s work
B．Life is too short for Edison to invent more for human beings
C．Edison made 100 inventions in his life
D．Edison was able to live and work for 100 years
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Twelve-year-old Leonardo was born in a poor family in Bambamarca in Peru. He knew how to read but he had never seen a book in his life. So he asked the new priest（牧师）in his village to give him one. But there was no electricity. So Leonardo borrowed candles from the church and sat up all night reading it. The next morning, he was at the door of the priest asking for another book to read.
John Medcalf, the priest，was moved. He also realised that people would love to read if given a chance. But he knew how difficult it was for Leonardo and those in his village to get books. And yet, no one can be taught to read and write without books. To make people in a poor, faraway area grow to love books，they have to be with them. So he thought the only way was to bring books to people.
But how could this be done? Mobile libraries or car libraries would be too expensive and difficult to continue in the rocky, hilly land of Peru. So what other method could be used?
M-call got a new idea from the barefoot（赤脚）doctors of China. And that was how the barefoot librarians first appeared in the villages of northern Peru，almost thirty years ago.
The librarians began by going from village to village, lending books to villagers. They helped start The 12ura1 Library Network of Peru.
At first，they were teachers of the village schools which these faraway libraries belonged to. But the teachers were not very interested in the job because it meant a lot of hat work. So, village elders took on the job themselves.
Today, there are 600 village libraries across Peru. The barefoot librarians who walk up to 15 hours a day with bags of books are their lifeline.
1.The first paragraph tells us that Leonardo
A. had a lot of books B. bought candles from others
C. stayed in the church D. enjoyed reading books
2.The underlined word "this" in Paragraph 3 probably refers to .
A. to grow to love books B. to bring books to people
C. to read and write D. to build a new library
3.The passage doesn't mention
A. when the barefoot librarians appeared B. who worked as village librarians at first
C. where Medcalf met Chinese doctors D. how many village libraries Peru has today
4.It can be inferred（推断）from the passage that ．
A. the first church in Peru was set up by John Medcalf
B. car libraries used to be popular in Leonardo's village
C. teachers were interested in bringing books to villagers
D. the barefoot librarians are important to village libraries
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Twelve-year-old Leonardo was born in a poor family in Bambamarca in Peru. He knew how to read but he had never seen a book in his life. So he asked the new priest（牧师）in his village to give him one. But there was no electricity. So Leonardo borrowed candles from the church and sat up all night reading it. The next morning, he was at the door of the priest asking for another book to read.
John Medcalf, the priest，was moved. He also realized that people would love to read if given a chance. But he knew how difficult it was for Leonardo and those in his village to get books. And yet, no one can be taught to read and write without books. To make people in a poor, faraway area grow to love books，they have to be with them. So he thought the only way was to bring books to people.
But how could this be done? Mobile libraries or car libraries would be too expensive and difficult to continue in the rocky, hilly land of Peru. So what other method could be used?
Medcalf got a new idea from the barefoot（赤脚）doctors of China. And that was how the barefoot librarians（图书管理员）first appeared in the villages of northern Peru，almost thirty years ago.
The librarians began by going from village to village, lending books to villagers. They helped start The Rura1 Library Network of Peru.
At first，they were teachers of the village schools which these faraway libraries belonged to. But the teachers were not very interested in the job because it meant a lot of hard work. So, village elders took on the job themselves.
Today, there are 600 village libraries across Peru. The barefoot librarians who walk up to 15 hours a day with bags of books are their lifeline.
1.The first paragraph tells us that Leonardo
A. had a lot of books B. bought candles from others
C, enjoyed reading books D. lived in the church
2.The underlined word "this" in Paragraph 3 probably refers to（指）” ”
A, to grow to love books B. to bring books to people
C. to read and write D. to build a new library
3.The passage doesn't mention
A, when the barefoot librarians appeared
B. who worked as village librarians at first
C. where Medcalf met Chinese doctors
D. how many village libraries Peru has today
4.It can be inferred（推断）from the passage that ．
A. the first church in Peru was set up by John Medcalf
B. car libraries used to be popular in Leonardo's village
C. teachers were interested in bringing books to villagers
D. the barefoot librarians are important to village libraries
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In the Tang Dynasty, there was a famous poet ______ name was Li Bai.
He was born in a poor family. And he died ______ AD 762. When he was young, he didn't like reading.
Once, he saw an old woman ______ an iron pestle(杵) when he was ______ from school. Li Bai was very ______. He asked______ that for. The old woman said she would grind the iron pestle into a needle(针). Li Bai ______， “The pestle is so thick, and when can it be ground down to a needle？”
The old woman smiled, “My boy, where there is a will, there is a way! The pestle is thick, but if I grind it every day, it can be ground down into a needle______. Am I right？”
Li Bai thought to himself, “What she said is right. Nothing in the world is ______ if I set my mind on it. It is all the same to the study. If I put my heart into it, can't I study well？”
Li Bai understood the truth. After that, he studied diligently(勤奋地). At last he became a famous poet, and ______ a good name for more than a thousand years.
1.A. who B. whose C. that D. which
2.A. in B. on C. at D. of
3.A. grind B. ground C. grinding D. grinds
4.A. on his way home B. on his way to home C. in his way to home D. in his way home
5.A. surprise B. surprised C. surprising D. surprises
6.A. what she was doing B. why she was doing C. what was she doing D. why was she doing
7.A. stopped B. wondered C. liked D. played
8.A. in the end B. at the end of C. by the end D. to the end
9.A. easy to me B. hard to me C. easy for me D. hard for me
10.A. left B. gave C. showed D. put